![]() I look around and see almost nothing to hate, and almost nothing to be afraid of. I have lived here for 13 years and I still don’t understand why there is so much fear and hate here. The land is full of prosperity, the stores full of goods, everyone has what the need and more so. The sky is blue and over the sea, just a few kilometers from where I am sitting, the clouds hang immobile. The apple trees are in bloom and stand like white sails in a sea of green. Here’s Knausgaard, writing in Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter this week and translated by this writer: ![]() This week, Knausgaard launched a scathing attack on the country, criticizing what he regards as its parochial view of literature and its constraints on what constitutes acceptable speech - and, for that matter, acceptable literature. For 13 years, Karl Ove Knausgaard, a Norwegian author who has become an international literary phenomenon thanks to his deeply confessional memoirs, has lived in Sweden. ![]()
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